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Pseudo-Isochromatic Plates for Testing Color Perception
by American Optical Company
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket/No Dustjacket
- Seller
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Iowa City, Iowa, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia and New York: The Beck Engraving Co., Inc, 1940. Metal Coil Binding. Very Good- with no dust jacket/No Dustjacket. Pages include three white leaves and 19 leaves of black, heavy cardstock with individual plates mounted on each, in addition to the title page, which is black with silver lettering. White pages and plate edges show scattered, light gray smudges, and white pages also show some toning around edges, black pages some light corner wear; the front fixed endpaper has a narrow and faint adhesive stain. The internal metal coil binding is clean and even, the gray cloth cover showing surface wear to spine sides, joints, spine ends, and corners, as well as three short white streaks on the front and a patch of pale spotting at the left rear, and general dimming to the gilt titles at front and spine, otherwise sound. Full title page text: "AO Pseudo Isochromatic Plates - Eighteen Plate Selection of Charts and Instructions Approved by the Inter-Society Color Council Subcommittee on ISC Problem 11: Color Blindness Studies. Engraved and Printed by the Beck Engraving Co., Inc. Philadelphia / New York Copr. 1940" (There are, in fact, 19 plates in this particular copy.) 7 1/4" x 6 1/2" x 7/8
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 072995
- Title
- Pseudo-Isochromatic Plates for Testing Color Perception
- Author
- American Optical Company
- Format/Binding
- Metal Coil Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Beck Engraving Co., Inc
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia and New York
- Date Published
- 1940
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
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Iowa City, Iowa
About The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
The Haunted Bookshop is an open shop with over 40,000 quality used, out-of-print, and antiquarian titles for students, scholars, collectors, artists, families and children. The store has been in business for over 35 years, now in a historic home near downtown Iowa City. Our open hours are 10-8 daily.
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